The Costs of Climate Change: Risks to the U.S. Economy and the Federal Budget
Witnesses:
- Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Political Science; and Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University
- Solomon Hsiang, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
- J. Alfredo Gómez, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Oren Cass, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Advanced Nuclear Technology: Protecting U.S. Leadership and Expanding Opportunities for Licensing New Nuclear Energy Technologies
Panel 1
- William D. Magwood, Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
- Chris Levesque, Chief Executive Officer, TerraPower
- Bob Perciasepe, President, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Expanded Deployment of Grid-Scale Energy Storage
Opening Remarks
- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Chairman, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Sen. Joe Manchin, Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Dr. George Crabtree, Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory
- Mitch Davidson, CEO, US Brookfield Renewable
- Ben Fowke, Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Officer, Xcel Energy Inc.
- Kiran Kumaraswamy, VP, Market Applications Fluence
- Andrew Ott, President and CEO, PJM Interconnection LLC
Nature in Crisis: Biodiversity Loss and its Causes
Opening Statement:
- Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
- Sir Robert Watson, Past Chair, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- Dr. Kate Brauman, Coordinating Lead Author, IPBES Global Assessment; Lead Scientist, Global Water Initiative, University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment
- Dr. James Porter, Josiah Meigs Professor of Ecology, Emeritus, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
- Jeff Goodwin, Conservation Stewardship Lead & Agricultural Consultant, Noble Research Institute
- Dr. Steven Monfort, Director of the Smithsonian National Zoo and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Creating a Climate Resilient America
Witnesses
- Rachel Cleetus, Policy Director, Climate and Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Noah Diffenbaugh, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
- Matt Russell, Executive Director, Iowa Interfaith Power and Light
Responding to the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Witnesses
- Sir Robert Watson, Immediate Past Chair, IPBES
- Dr. Eduardo S. Brondizio, Co-Chair, IPBES Global Assessment
- Dr. Yunne Shin, Coordinating Lead Author, IPBES Global Assessment
- Dr. Jacob Malcom, Director, Center for Conservation Innovation, Defenders of Wildlife
- Patrick Moore, Chairman, CO2 Coalition
- Marc Morano, Founder, Climate Depot
Climate Change and the Agriculture Sector
Witnesses
- Debbie Lyons-Blythe, Blythe Family Farms, White City , KS
- Dr. Frank Mitloehner, Professor, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
- Matthew Rezac, Rezac Farms, Weston , NE
- Thomas J. Vilsack, President And CEO, U.S. Dairy Export Council